Means for securing door-latch handles.



F. HAIZMANN. MEANS FOR SECURING DOOR LATCH HANDLES.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 11, 1911.

1,015,679. Patented $11.23,

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Application filed May 11, 1911. Serial 1%. 636.448. To all it may concern: The door-latch handle fastening consists- Belt known that I, Fammuci Ha zivtann, of handles a which are inserted by means of a citizen of the German Empire, residing their shanks c in 'the roll back 9 of the lock at Stuttgart, 1n the Kingdom of \rVurttemb, and with theirv ends mutually in the neck.

. curing greatly improve arrangement which avoids forced apart by means of a screw,

UNITED strrmnnmon irarzmann,

or s'ru'rrean'r, GERMANY. iii-inanev ronsncuame DdOB-LATCH HANDLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I d of the handles a. In order to retain t e shanks c firmly in the roll back 9, which bear one upon the other are with inclined slots or notches e' on their mutually facing edges, in which slots a have invented (certain new Means for Se- I do h berg, Germany, and useful Improvements in Door-Latch Handles; and ereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to Now if this screw which it appertains to make and use t e roll back g. fbe tight/- same. v ened up, the shanks c are .force apart This'in vention relates to a means for fixsuch a way that they are pressed firmlying door latch handles which 13 distinagainst the walls of the handle neck 02 and guished from those hitherto employed bv a the roll back g. By means of the slots 0,.

In ordervto be able and particularly effective their ,disad vantages.

. The invention, therefore, consists in a door latch handle fastening, comprising a at any time without ditficulty, the cover roll back and -knob shanks made in two plate 71 of the lock 1) is provided with a hole parts with smooth surfaces and of such It opposite-the screw, through which. hole a length that their. ends may be mutually inserted toa sufiicient extent I into the neck screw. of the opposite handle.

' I declare that what Iclaim is v A door latch handle fastening, comprising the roll back the knob shanks arranged in two parts 'one upon the other, with their ends mutually engaging in the necks of the. handles, said shanks being provided with longitudinal slots registering with each other, an a wedge screw carrie y the roll back adapted to engage the slots in the shanks, whereby said screw permits longitudinal adjustment of the shanks as well as holds said shanks firmly against the sides of the neck of the handle and the roll back.

In testimony in presence of'two witnesses.

, FRIEDRICH HAIZMANN. Witnesses:

KARI. Tnnonon Jasmin,- Ennnsr ENTENMANN.

These shanks are wedge or the like and firmly [pressed against the walls of the roll back and also against the walls of the neck of the handle so that the handle is prevented being pulled out acci entally. Where the two half handle shanks meet in the roll back, they are provided with slots in which the screw, wedge. or the like engagesin such a way that, firstly, the door handles may be adapted to any thickness of door, and, secondly, a handle canneye'r be pulled out even if the screw or wedge should become loose.

The invention will now be more particularly described in one form of construction, as an example, in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which, Figure 1"is a partial section of the arrangement; Fig. 2, a front view; and Fig. 3, a second-position of Fig. 2.

the shanks; provide screw 1 engages "which is mounted in the.

with smooth surfaces lying fiat Patented Jami 23,1912.-

to get at the screw f";

it is possible to conveniently operate the whereof I afiixmy signature, p 

